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Explore cutting-edge AI developments in China that are transforming various industries and reshaping the future.
China is seeking to overtake the United States in AI to become a world leader in a field seen as critical to moving the country up the industrial value chain. Photo: CCTV

China to harness nation’s resources to AI self-reliance ambitions

President Xi Jinping tells Politburo the country must redouble efforts to overcome bottlenecks in core technology.

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Artificial intelligence

Flurry of Chinese AI updates come amid tightening Nvidia restrictions

Huawei

Huawei to roll out AI chips this year as potential alternative to Nvidia’s H20

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba’s AI cancer detection tool clears FDA hurdle for faster approval process

The tech giant’s Damo Academy secured a “breakthrough device” designation from the US regulator for its pancreatic cancer-detecting AI model, Damo Panda.

A computed tomography scanner at Shenzhen United Family Hospital in Shenzhen on May 30, 2024. Site: Edmond So
DeepSeek

DeepSeek unveils new AI reasoning method amid anticipation for R2 model

In collaboration with Tsinghua University, DeepSeek developed a technique combining reasoning methods to guide AI models towards human preferences.

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Alibaba

Alibaba’s Qwen3 AI model coming this month, sources say

The latest upgrade to the Qwen family of models will include a mixture-of-experts version and one with just 600 million parameters for mobile devices.

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Microsoft

Microsoft shutters AI lab in Shanghai, continuing China retreat

The IoT & AI Insider Lab in the Zhangjiang hi-tech zone likely closed in January or February, nearby workers say.

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Microsoft has closed its research lab in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang hi-tech zone, and has already removed its logo from the entrance. Photo: Wency Chen
Science

How AI revolution at a Chinese coal mine is making profits soar

China’s Dahaize Mine is rewriting the playbook on how a coalfield operates as automation takes centre stage.

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Alibaba

Alibaba launches AI model that can process images and video on the go

The multimodal Qwen2.5-Omni-7B model is designed to run locally on mobile devices and tops rivals in some benchmarks.

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai questions AI’s limits, casts doubt on humanoid robots

Speaking at Alibaba’s Jumpstarter event, the entrepreneur said much of what humans value is not captured in training data.

Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai speaks at the grand finale of the company’s Jumpstarter 2025 event on March 26. Photo: Handout
Artificial intelligence

Ant Group’s use of local GPUs, not Nvidia, cuts AI model training costs by 20%

The fintech affiliate of Alibaba said its Ling-Plus-Base model can be ‘effectively trained on lower-performance devices’.

Ant Group’s latest research into AI development places it among domestic firms such as DeepSeek and ByteDance in the search for more efficient ways to train and run models. Photo: Shutterstock
Science

AI expert Guo-Jun Qi leaves US for China

After a decade in America, a leading computer scientist has returned to China to head a top artificial intelligence lab.

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Artificial intelligence

AI reasoning rivals: Tencent touts new model’s performance over DeepSeek-R1

The tech giant’s latest offering leverages large-scale reinforcement learning, rivalling DeepSeek in top benchmark tests.

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Science

Chinese AI team wins global award for replacing Nvidia GPU with industrial chip

Win for video-generation AI model based on off-the shelf chip marks a first for China and a shift in global race to optimise AI hardware.

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The breakthrough by Chinese scientists may redefine how industries deploy cost-effective, energy-efficient AI systems, from robotic controls to autonomous vehicles. Photo: Shutterstock
Art

Can AI-driven art offer real social commentary? This artist thinks so

Inhwa Yeom uses XR and AI to create artworks offering social commentary; catch her at the Hong Kong Arts Centre’s ‘Future Tense’ exhibition.

Inhwa Yeom uses XR and AI to create artworks offering social commentary; catch her at the Hong Kong Arts Centre’s “Future Tense” exhibition. Photo: courtesy Inhwa Yeom
Hong Kong science and tech

Round table: what can women in STEM do to lead change?

PostMag hosted a discussion between 5 Hong Kong-based innovators blazing a trail: Florence Chan, Angela Wu, Wendy Lam, Gina Jiang and Megan Lam.

Science

Chinese scientists build world’s first AI chip made of carbon

Chinese researchers have developed a chip that it could be a game-changer in modern computing.

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Alibaba

Alibaba rolls out AI model that it claims beats DeepSeek, OpenAI

Alibaba says its QwQ-32B AI model outperforms DeepSeek’s R1 in coding and problem solving while using fewer resources.

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Alibaba shares have surged in Hong Kong after it introduced its latest AI reasoning model. Photo: AFP
Artificial intelligence

Top scientist urges China to develop alternative to Nvidia software

Li Guojie, a computer scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, also suggests that OpenAI may be hitting the scaling wall.

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Artificial intelligence

My Take | After DeepSeek, China gets a leg up in the quest for human-level AI

Will artificial general intelligence (AGI) arrive with a bang or quietly evolve? The answer may have implications in the US-China tech race.

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DeepSeek

The secret sauce of DeepSeek’s AI success: liberal arts graduates

DeepSeek’s AI magic lies in its unique blend of literary expertise and advanced algorithms, former employees and industry experts say.

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The logo of DeepSeek is seen during the Global Developer Conference in Shanghai in February. Photo: AFP
Artificial intelligence

AI’s new frontier: PolyU scientist sees domain-specific models as the future

Former Alibaba scientist Yang Hongxia is at the forefront of an effort to evolve AI beyond DeepSeek’s breakthroughs.

Specialised AI models that excel in fields such as biomedicine could be the next big thing in the industry. Photo: Shutterstock
Science

China arms robots with controversial thermobaric weapon in urban warfare drill

PLA scientists have proposed equipping robotic combatants with contentious weapons that are one step away from nuclear arms.

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Artificial intelligence

Meet Wang Xingxing, the Unitree robotics star at Xi’s symposium

Wang, 35, is the founder and CEO of Unitree – one of China’s top developers of quadrupedal and humanoid robots.

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Huawei

Former Huawei ‘genius youth’ recruit joins Chinese alma mater

Xu Ke’s move follows several high-profile departures of Chinese scientists from top tech companies to join academia.

Two men hand out Chinese flags near a Huawei store in Beijing during last year’s National Day holiday. Photo: AP Photo
China food security

How China plans to use AI, biotech in agricultural self-sufficiency push

Calling scientific and technological innovation the ‘main battlefield of international strategic competition’, agriculture official says the race for dominance is on.

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China is cultivating new agricultural varieties, including corn, as it strives for seed self-sufficiency and food security. Photo: AFP
China technology

Opinion | In tech war, China is gunning for mass adoption over premium innovation

From artificial intelligence and biotech to autonomous driving, China is disrupting the traditional high-cost model of proprietary innovation.

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Semiconductors

Ex-Apple engineer returns to China to teach about semiconductors at alma mater

Wang Huanyu joins a wave of Chinese scientists to leave the US and return home.

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